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Man's moral nature: an essay

"The object of this essay is to discuss the moral nature--to point out, in the first place, its general relation to the other groups of functions belonging to, or rather making up, the individual man, and also its relations to man's environment. Secondly, to show its radical separation from these other groups of functions; then to attempt to decide of what organ it is a function--to consider whether it is a fixed quantity, or whether, like the active nature and the intellectual nature, it is in course of development. And if the moral nature is progressive, to try to find out what the essential nature of this progress is--upon what basis the progress itself rests--the direction of the progress in the past and in the future--its causes--its history--and the law of it--and to point out the conclusions which can be drawn from this progress as to the character of the universe in which we live"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

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